Slowly Getting Sicker...

Well, since my last post about S.F.S., things are slowly coming together.

Word has gotten out that I'm producing the show again and people are starting to step up and express interest in the show. I've had some folks already offer to sit-in with the show. Which is good. Saves me from going after them. (Note to self: Start a list of those folks. You'll need it later.)

I had a nice lunch with Megan P. who helped me pick out the performance dates and times. Looks like we'll be on the first Saturday of every month. At midnight. At the Playground. Tickets are going to be $10, but for the first year or so, I'm going to heavily paper the show with 2 for 1's. (It's more important to put asses in seats, than for me to make moolah off of this. Asses in seats = better shows = more return customers = Successful, Long Run of the show.)

I've contacted Edison to come up with a logo for the show. Which is good. I want it to be consistent, professionally designed and on everything that we touch. Marketing materials. Posters. T-Shirts. Web Posts. I want the logo to be everywhere. So, I'm going to send him some sketches and see what he comes up with. (It's pretty simple and you've already seen a crude mock-up of it. We're going to clean it up, though.)

I've also been discussing the show concept with people and getting some feedback from folks who have both done and/or seen the original run(s) of the show. People have offered up some really useful tips and I'm applying some of them. I think that the show will have a very different feel from the original run. Not a "better" feel, just a "different" feel. As you would expect with a new producer/ director.

Oh, and I did my first pass at the poster design today. It's simple and (I think) very effective. Some elements will be consistent from poster to poster. The middle f the poster, though, will be infinitely variable, depending on what I think I can get away with. I'll post pics online when I finish some more of them. I think you'll like them.

I also want to have a simple web presence. So, I'll try to contact the lad who designs the webpages for the BBR. I'll see if he can't come up with a simple homepage design for the show. I'll want show info like start time, location, show description, etc. on the webpage, but I probably won't regularly update it with Guest Info. I think I can accomplish that with a nicely designed MySpace page. So, I'm thinking that the S.F.S. webpage will be pretty easy for him to design for me.

Oh, and we've locked in our opening night...October 6th. (Well, assuming the BBR doesn't do a show at Martyrs that night. If so, then we'll push back to the 13th.) Either way, we'll also be hosting a Free Preview of the show on Saturday, Sept. 8th. A way of saying, "Hey there fuckface! We got a show. You can get a peek for free now, but you gotta pay to come back later!"

I also need to look at assembling a little bit of a press packet and think about how I want to present it to the media for possible coverage. I want to get the show's name out to the rest of the world. Which all plays into my "Get Asses Into Seats" theory.

So, yes, I am getting steadily sicker. It almost looks like this thing is actually going to happen.

Cheers,
COB